Fair Practices in Contracting Task Force

President Biden to Sign Executive Order Strengthening Buy American Provisions, Ensuring Future of America is Made in America by All of America’s Workers

President Biden to Sign Executive Order Strengthening Buy American Provisions, Ensuring Future of America is Made in America by All of America’s Workers | The White House Biden-Harris Administration Commits to Investing in American Workers and Companies Today, while many American businesses are on the brink of having to close their doors because of the crises that our country faces, President Biden will sign an Executive Order to support manufacturers, businesses, an...

A campaign contributor to Mayor Lori Lightfoot landed a $1.6 million no-bid deal with Chicago Public Schools after the mayor personally vouched for him, then delivered computers that in some cases didn’t meet district purchasing standards or work for virtual learning. District officials said they bought the used computers in April to meet an “urgent need” as schools scrambled to get devices to students and the district’s traditional vendors faced backlogs. Yet more than a third are still sitting in a district warehouse as backups, a Chalkbeat/Better Government Association investigation has found. Mark Aistrope, the CEO of Chicago-based Meeting Tomorrow, who contributed nearly $30,000 to Lightfoot’s mayoral bid, emailed the mayor in late March, saying his company could quickly provide tens of thousands of computers to the school district when it needed them most. Early the next morning, Lightfoot wrote CPS CEO Janice Jackson to put in a good word.

Chicago schools needed computers. Then the mayor emailed about a ‘really good guy.’ What followed was a $1.6 million deal for a Lightfoot donor who supplied used laptops and iPads, some of which didn’t work for remote learning.

October 7-8: Digital Empowers, a program led by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation and Tata Consultancy Services will empower collective action and social innovation.

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Groups call for big changes in an office stuck in the carbon paper era Three groups recommend changes they'd like to see from the new clerk of the Circuit Court of Cook County after Dorothy Brown leaves in December.